Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)hotmail(dot)com>, dev(at)archonet(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.
Date: 2006-08-08 22:49:27
Message-ID: 200608082249.k78MnRA10924@momjian.us
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> > I like the idea of a package being a schema. I imagine that a package
> > would put its own schema name first in the 'search_path' before
> > referencing an object. I think anything more complex is going to be too
> > hard to use.
> >
>
> Or we could just add local variables to schema and dispense with
> PACKAGES entirely.

Sure, makes more sense to me. I don't think people want Oracle syntax
as much as Oracle packages capabilities.

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